Fishbowl
By: Bradley Somer
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781785411762
Subjects: Apartment houses; Fiction; Goldfish; Carassin doré; Romans, nouvelles; Social aspects
Description: Despite his enviable view from a balcony on the twenty-seventh floor of an apartment block, Ian the Goldfish has frequent - if fleeting - desires for a more exciting life. Until one day, a series of unfortunate events gives him an opportunity to escape ... Our story begins, however, with the human inhabitants of Ian's building. There is the handsome student, his girlfriend and his mistress; an agoraphobic sex worker; the invisible caretaker; the pregnant woman on bed rest; and the home-schooled boy, Herman, who thinks he can travel through time. As Ian tumbles perilously downwards, he will witness all their lives, loves, triumphs and disasters ...